Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News Efforts to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 are ramping up. Governments worldwide are using mobile phone tracking to enforce quarantines and social distancing against SARS-CoV-2, the novel Coronavirus. China set the...
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Does AI Fix or Distort Our Past?
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News On Monday, YouTuber Denis Shiryaev published a remastered cut of one of the world’s most famous films: L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translation: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat). Two artificial intelligence...
Why Bitcoin is Stuck
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IBM AI Synthesizes Arguments
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News Last Thursday (Nov. 14, 2019) at Cambridge University, IBM’s “Project Debater” artificial intelligence program facilitated a debate over whether AI will do more harm than good to humanity in the future. It began with a...
A Brief History of Blockchain: Future
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe The power of Ethereum became known in Spring 2016, with the invention of a radical new application known as the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). The DAO was a blockchain mutual fund that invested in projects across...
After A Hack: Banks Increase Cybersecurity Measures
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeOn March 22nd, 2019, Paige Thompson broke into the databases of Capital One bank. The next day, she walked away with social security numbers, bank account numbers, and other personal information for over 100 million people. How...
A Brief History of Blockchain: Ethereum
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Bitcoin’s Flaws Satoshi Nakamoto’s blockchain changed the world, and Bitcoin became the first proof of concept for this exciting technology. Bitcoin was a remarkable, world-changing invention, and it brought together previously...
A Brief History of Blockchain: Bitcoin
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeOne of the most significant documents of the 21st century begins in earnest: “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a...
True Artificial Intelligence is Coming Sooner Than We Thought
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe R.U.R.: An AI Story Harry Domin, General Manager of Rossum’s Universal Robots, speaking with Helena Glory, President of the Humanity League: DOMIN My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect...
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe “I wear a mask. And that mask, it’s not to hide who I am, but to create what I am.” -Batman, Batman Vol 1 624 “Satoshi Nakamoto” is Found A Newsweek journalist approaches a modest two-story home in the San Gabriel foothills of...
The Future of The Internet of Things
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.” -Nikola Tesla, 1926 Legend has it that in the ‘70s and ‘80s,...
AI Image Generation Can Fool You
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Pleased to Meet You Pictured above are Ruben and Gloria Ruiz, a couple living in Belmont, CA. He’s a transport engineer working for the city; she teaches nursing at the local community college. They’re in their 60s now, and...